Social and cultural anthropology Books

This collection focuses on the existential predicaments and choices that underpin current debates and developments in the governance of crime and criminal justice and argues for the relevance of existentialist thought for enhancing a critical and...

This monograph is a detailed linguistic analysis of the discourse of German nationalism, colonialism and Anti-Semitism using a methodological framework devised by Ruth Wodak et al., the Discourse Historical Approach. It pays particular attention to the...

This book explores the social and political significance of contemporary recognition contests in areas such as disability, race and ethnicity, nationalism, class and sexuality, drawing on accounts from Europe, the USA, Latin America, the Middle East and...

The book suggests a new perspective on the essence of human language. This enormous achievement of our species is best characterized as a communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that was collectively invented by ancient...

This book explores the human past in West New Guinea (otherwise known as Indonesian Papua, West Papua, or Irian Jaya). The western part of New Guinea and its surrounding islands were critical for the early peopling of the Pacific region over 50,000 years...

Ix Hmen U Tzaco Ah Maya: Maya Herbal Medicine is written by Aurora Garcia Saqui, a well-known natural healer in Belize. She was trained by her grand-uncle, the famous Don Eligio Panti in traditional Maya medicine. A Yucatec Maya who grew up in rural...

 An Anthropology of Crosslocations introduces a radical new approach to understanding location. The co-authors show that the question of where something is depends on how places are mutually connected and disconnected. The location of...

Culture and History in the Pacific is a collection of essays originally published in 1990. The texts explore from different perspectives the question of culture as a repository of historical information. They also address broader questions of...

When you hear of a photo book on "Mongolian Nomads," you may imagine a book featuring images of people living on the steppe and handling livestock. But instead, this book focuses on the relationships between nomadic people and their belongings. What...

Die Kunst und die Lust zu gefallen, anzuziehen und mit besonderer Betonung aller Reize zu verführen, sind in der Geschichte der Frau so alt wie die Welt selbst. Zu allen Zeiten und in allen Ländern ist und war der Kult der Schönheit der Ausdruck höchster...

Academic Paper from the year 2017 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: MA, Yale University, language: English, abstract: Currently, particular relevance is acquired by the values and beliefs regarding the role of women and men in...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Sonstiges, Note: 1,3, Universität Bielefeld, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zu Zeiten der Globalisierung und einer vermehrten Migration, ist der Kontakt zwischen Personen unterschiedlichster...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Europa, Note: 1,3, Universität Potsdam, Veranstaltung: Vom Ende der Türkenfurcht - Türkenbegeisterung und orientalische Sehnsüchte im Europa des 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhunderts,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Design (Industrie, Grafik, Mode), Note: 1,0, AMD Akademie Mode & Design GmbH, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Spanien war zur Zeit des 16. Jahrhunderts das einflussreichste Land in Europa. 1519 wurde Karl der V...

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,7, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: Passing by Nella Larsen, published in 1929, features the issue of racial...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,0, Universität Hamburg (Institut für Ethnologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Es gibt wenige Bereiche, in denen Medizinethnologen so praktisch gefordert und eingesetzt...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,3, Universität Koblenz-Landau (Institut für Kulturwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit befasst sich mit dem Buch „Die Lehren des Don Juan" von Carlos...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 2, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit soll vor allem die gegenwärtige Beziehung von Mensch und Pferd betrachtet...

The Use of Color in History, Politics, and Art, a collection of papers from the 2012 Arts & Letters Conference hosted by the University of North Georgia, explores how color can provide clues to the interpretation of history and politics, works of art,...

Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and...

"Peasants tell tales," one prominent cultural historian tells us (Robert Darnton). Scholars must then determine and analyze what it is they are saying and whether or not to incorporate such tellings into their histories and ethnographies. Challenging the...

Since the extensive floods of 1966, inhabitants of Venice's laguna areas have come to share in, and reflect upon, concerns over pressing environmental problems. Evidence of damage caused by industrial pollution has contributed to the need to recover a...

Illness and misfortune more broadly are ubiquitous; thus, healing roles or professions are also universal. Ironically, however, little attention has been paid to those who heal or promote wellbeing. These come in many different guises: in some societies,...

Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek's notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin's notion of the optical unconscious to offer newer concepts: "tinted glasses", through which we see the world; "unit-thinking",...

Sexuality and gender have come to serve as measures for cultural belonging in discussions of the position of Muslim immigrants in multicultural Western societies. While the acceptance of assumed local norms such as sexual liberty and gender equality are...

Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing. While...

French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu's relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu's...

As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order. In Gender in Georgia, editors Maia Barkaia and Alisse...

In the Himalayas of the Indian part of Kashmir three communities depend on the ecology of the Dal lake: market gardeners, houseboat owners and fishers. Floating Economies describes for the first time the complex intermeshing economy, social structure...

En el presente volumen se han tomado en consideración testimonios y manifestaciones escritas desde el Medioevo tardío hasta el siglo XX con el fin de contribuir al avance en el estudio de las relaciones entre Gran Bretaña e Irlanda y la Península Ibérica.

The central theme of this book is the importance of the act of shared memory in reconstituting identity in every generation. This is particularly so where the traditional culture of the community has been under threat from a powerful neighbour, as is the...

A volume in Work‐Life BalanceIdentity matters. Who we are in terms of our intersecting identities such as gender, race, social class, (dis)ability, geography, and religion areintegral to who we are and how we navigate work and life. Unfortunately, many...

The Three Kingdoms Period in Korean history consisted of the kingdoms of Silla, Koguryo and Paekche. It was only the Silla kingdom which seemed to have had a connection to the ancient nomadic Scythians. These people seemed so different from the...